Checking Facebook has become a primary part of the morning routine of one in five young women; many citing this as the first thing they do upon waking.
In a poll last month of 1,605 U.S. adults who use social media, 40% of respondants told NBC Universal’s Oxygen Media that they are self-described “Facebook addicts.”
The survey also found that one in four women 18- to 34 get up in the middle of the night to read text messages and 37% of that group say they have fallen asleep with a PDA in their hands.
The survey also shows a disconnect between attitudes about the public and private uses of sites like Facebook.
- Almost two in three respondents use Facebook for networking and career, but 42% don’t have a problem with posting photos of themselves partying.
- 32% think photos of themselves or others making obscene gestures are appropriate as well.
In terms of privacy, the Oxygen survey found that women aren’t too concerned about being tracked at any given time. Case in point:
- More than half 56 of Twitter users surveyed are fine with letting their followers know their current location
- 53% post personal problems they are having at the moment.
- 85% of women think its okay to post photos of a “girls or guys night out.”
- 79% see no reason to post photos with kissing in them.
- 73% have no problem with someone posting images of a hen night.
That’s not to say the respondents don’t have limits, though younger women sense that the lines have to be drawn somewhere:
- More than half
- of women 18-24 do not trust Facebook with their private information.
- 72% of females in that age group understand that once it’s up on Facebook, “it will live on forever.”
- Not everything from a night out should be posted on social nets, as 89% of these young women agree that if you don’t want your parents to see it, don’t post it on Facebook.
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